DISINFO: Washington and Brussels planning war against Russia, similar to Napoleon and Hitler
SUMMARY
Washington and Brussels are going to war against Russia until the last Ukrainian. The West lacks instruments and options to win, whereas the Russian troops are successfully demolishing the Ukrainian forces and reaching the goals of the special military operation. The West fails to learn from history. Napoleon and Hitler once mobilised the whole of Europe in an attack against Russia. Today Washington has mobilised all western powers to reach a “decisive solution of the Russian issue”. Nato has not seriously calculated the consequences of US military and political adventurism. The Ukrainian case will be another shameful US military loss after Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
RESPONSE
This article contains wrong historical analogies and disinformation aimed at discrediting the EU / West as a whole, consistent with recurring pro-Kremlin narratives about alleged Western aggressiveness towards Russia and its anti-Russian activities. It also includes the narrative that Ukraine is a Western "tool" against Russia aiming to deflect any Russian responsibility for the unjustified wide-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on 24 February 2022. The Russian war against Ukraine began in 2014 with the Russian illegal annexation of Crimea and Russia's military involvement and support of separatists in Donbas.
The West supports Ukraine with military and financial aid for the country’s efficient self-defence, in accordance with the UN Charter Article 51, to stop Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. NATO condemns in the strongest possible terms Russia's brutal and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine and some NATO countries are supporting Ukraine with weapons to help it uphold its right for self-defence.
The article also draws a link to Nazi Germany and Napoleon, which is one of the favourite techniques of pro-Kremlin outlets. Learn more about the reasons behind the Kremlin's obsession with Nazism in the EUvsDisinfo analysis titled "Nazi east, Nazi west, Nazi over the cuckoo's nest" and "Why does Putin portray himself as the tamer of neo-Nazism".
The European Union was set up with the aim of ending the frequent and bloody wars between neighbours, which culminated in the Second World War. The Nazi ideology and the EU are based on opposite values and principles. Read more here. In 2012, the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing the causes of peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
The article misuses the Holocaust, speaking about the “decisive solution of the Russian issue”. On 19 January 2023, the Diplomatic Service of the European Union issued a Statement by the High Representative on this matter, following similar comments by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. The statement called them “entirely misplaced, disrespectful and trampling on the memory of the six million Jewish people, and other victims, who were systematically murdered in the Holocaust”.
See earlier disinformation cases claiming that the Anglo-Saxons rule America “from abroad” and are now trying to control Russia, that Anglo-Saxons are on the edge of an anti-Russian attack, that the West has approved a new ‘Barbarossa’ plan to attack Russia, and that the West is about waging a war against Russia from Belarusian territory.